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, and there's a lot of pundits who enter the book, including joe alsop and there's pat nixon, pat nixon is a prop to dick nixon, quite literally during the speech. she is sitting there nervously, not knowing what he is going to say. she is crucial into the strategy of making her husband look normal. he talks about her being a normal suburban house wife but there's a fascinating think about pat nixon, and she is weirdly open about the fact that she doesn't really seem to like politics, and seems to even have some kind of trepidation about being with her husband. she writes a puff piece for her husband titled "a wonderful guy" and she says, dick doesn't do anything in a half hearted manner so i know we're in for a rugged time. this isn't a piece that is supposedly a celebration of his -- and she is worried about him, about what her life is going to be, and things like that. you get a real sense that with both eisenhower and pat nixon that politics transformed people in sometimes ways they don't necessarily want. another character is joe steph mccarthy, running in 1952 for re-election. his
, and there's a lot of pundits who enter the book, including joe alsop and there's pat nixon, pat nixon is a prop to dick nixon, quite literally during the speech. she is sitting there nervously, not knowing what he is going to say. she is crucial into the strategy of making her husband look normal. he talks about her being a normal suburban house wife but there's a fascinating think about pat nixon, and she is weirdly open about the fact that she doesn't really seem to like politics, and seems...
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nixon had always wanted to to run a campaign in a certain way and part of the story i tell us how nixon, this is how we should run the campaign and eisenhower says i'm not sure i'm comfortable with all then by the end eisenhower is taken at his word and wants to run a campaign similar to his. this is the way nixon originally envisioned the campaign, writing something i discovered in the archives as well, a letter to a fund-raiser. this campaign, some people in this campaign to be conducted on so-called high intellectual plane. there is a republican desire to do that and i think that is actually a smack in adlai stevenson's that we should let bygones be bygones and not pulling up the past mistakes of the truman administration. that after all we have two good candidates for president and in short a little nice powder pub dual and that language, there is a lot of -- i mean if you read a lot of language in 1952, there was always this undertone about homosexuality and this notion that adlai stevenson divorced and never got remarried and what's up with that? maybe he doesn't really like the g
nixon had always wanted to to run a campaign in a certain way and part of the story i tell us how nixon, this is how we should run the campaign and eisenhower says i'm not sure i'm comfortable with all then by the end eisenhower is taken at his word and wants to run a campaign similar to his. this is the way nixon originally envisioned the campaign, writing something i discovered in the archives as well, a letter to a fund-raiser. this campaign, some people in this campaign to be conducted on...
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nixon. the situation came to a head on the third day of the visit as pat walked through the store, hundreds of people crammed onto ball con neys or stood in adjacent aisles to wave and catch a glimpse of her. reporters trying to cover the event found their views blocked by the soviet security detail. pushing became shoveing became fists flying through the air. pat saved one reporter from being man handled by the soviet officer by pulling the reporter to her and offering him a lick of her ice cream cone. her or obvious distress at the situation and her attempt to remedy it did much to win the open admiration of the reporters. and so we end with another story. that reinforces pat's love of travel, her opennesses to all of the people she met including reporters and her willingnesses to take whatever action was necessary. from her youngest days when she listened to her father's stories of his adventures through her years as a single woman taking off on small excursions through the early years of
nixon. the situation came to a head on the third day of the visit as pat walked through the store, hundreds of people crammed onto ball con neys or stood in adjacent aisles to wave and catch a glimpse of her. reporters trying to cover the event found their views blocked by the soviet security detail. pushing became shoveing became fists flying through the air. pat saved one reporter from being man handled by the soviet officer by pulling the reporter to her and offering him a lick of her ice...
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all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, these yellow notes and you would say this is a political genius. at the same time this is a man who could be so gironde at night in the white house, tortured, hurt. the whole white house finally has henry kissinger explained to the people in england that the president is ill and he's in bed and he will have to call you back tomorrow morning. so you get a sense of the full package. not just a fair legal national health insurance bill, but he really had a handle on. you see the extent to which he understood health care. and also the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as he passed. take another example. jimmy carter to read jimmy carter's, was that he knew that he was smarter than everybody in the room. and he tried to get into such detail. so, at 1.8 memo goes around and jimmy carter would take notes with his fountain pen. you can see his handwriting and at one point in one of the health care memos she says and don't forget about psro'
all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, these yellow notes and you would say this is a political genius. at the same time this is a man who could be so gironde at night in the white house, tortured, hurt. the whole white house finally has henry kissinger explained to the people in england that the president is ill and he's in bed and he will have to call you back tomorrow morning. so you get a sense of the full package. not just a fair legal national health...
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remember the tapes that got nixon so much trouble? johnson had this thing keeps going, but they kept them hidden. they didn't release to the public till two or three years ago and our book was one of the first that had access to these tapes. now lyndon johnson famously was that when medicare passed in 1965 and the normal story that johnson himself tells in his autobiography goes like this. representative wilbur mills was fighting, resisting medicare. he stopped he single-handedly and as chair of the ways and means committee could do that. after the 1964 election, and insight for the democrats, he stated that the last day of the markup of the bill. there's three bills before the committee. administration proposal which covered hospital care. the ama proposal, which discover doctors care that another proposal, which suggested let's not cover all people over 65. vicious cover poor people. the great antagonist of medicare sits back and says let's pass all three. the johnson administration officials in the room at the time panic. what is h
remember the tapes that got nixon so much trouble? johnson had this thing keeps going, but they kept them hidden. they didn't release to the public till two or three years ago and our book was one of the first that had access to these tapes. now lyndon johnson famously was that when medicare passed in 1965 and the normal story that johnson himself tells in his autobiography goes like this. representative wilbur mills was fighting, resisting medicare. he stopped he single-handedly and as chair...
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franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the opposing party during his second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between the president and congress, over the treaty. after considerable after working with members of congress, compromising and cajoling. and i was at the congress of right-thinking federalist senate president hu is revered. when they went in his second term, eisenhower worked quietly behind the scenes of the senate majority leader, brendan jones said, to gain approval of his legislative agenda. ronald reagan began the demo
franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the...
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nixon then left saw paul to the previous engagement. i use this story to begin my talk because i think it exemplifies key points a wish to make about pat nixon and her public role or her role as foreign diplomats. she met the indian woman the traveling she did as a first and second lady was the best part of her job as a political wife. second, not the wife of an ambassador or statesmen but a young woman who had come to the united states to see this second lady then to study. she treated everyone she met as a favor the most important person in the world. they responded to her sincerity. third, issues happiest in her role if she could take action. the cajuns' the nixons' wrapped was not that long negative important at that moment as getting this cast a seat at the presidential dinner. it is a small act but left a lasting impression on the indian woman and the woman at the table where she was seated. that is how we know through a letter someone responded and wrote to pat later. on occasion she was proud of her work to help raise funds for
nixon then left saw paul to the previous engagement. i use this story to begin my talk because i think it exemplifies key points a wish to make about pat nixon and her public role or her role as foreign diplomats. she met the indian woman the traveling she did as a first and second lady was the best part of her job as a political wife. second, not the wife of an ambassador or statesmen but a young woman who had come to the united states to see this second lady then to study. she treated...
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i say this about richard nixon. he was a brilliant man, maybe pound for pound the smartest man we see. he sits in the -- across the street from the oval office, the fireplace calling, the air-conditioner turned up full crank, and he writes in yellow pads. some of it is brought to my have to be strong. some of it is billion stuff. you see the future of health care predicted piece by piece. all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, and you think, this it was a genius, a political genius. at the same time this was a man who could be so drawn, out of a truck at night in the white house, tortured her man that the whole white house had to explain to the people in england that the president is ill and in bed in and have to call you back tomorrow morning. you get a sense of the full package, not just this merely dull national of insurance bill that he really had a hand in. ecb extent to which he understood health care the extent to which he had to negotiate his own personal demons as to p
i say this about richard nixon. he was a brilliant man, maybe pound for pound the smartest man we see. he sits in the -- across the street from the oval office, the fireplace calling, the air-conditioner turned up full crank, and he writes in yellow pads. some of it is brought to my have to be strong. some of it is billion stuff. you see the future of health care predicted piece by piece. all health care is in the shadow of richard nixon. these are in the archives, and you think, this it was a...
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lyndon johnson readily be barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public. and the winner had the advantage of the weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won his second term, landslide, because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a heated battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country with the winner walking off with the modest majority. it is a customary wisdom that the campaign between the incumbent president and his opponent will be either a referendum on the first term of the president, or a judgment of which candidate will be the better leader. is there really a difference between these two considerations? does not boil down to judging the leadership skill of the incumbent based on his effectiveness during his first term, versus the unknown leadership skills of the challenger? it's easy to point to the national security, or the economic consequences, or consequent im
lyndon johnson readily be barry goldwater and richard nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. in each of those elections, one of the candidates failed to capture the spirit of the american voting public. and the winner had the advantage of the weak opponent. franklin roosevelt won his second term, landslide, because of his huge popularity. however, in many more presidential elections, the candidates are in a heated battle to present themselves as the one best capable of serving the country with the...
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jack kennedy, if jack kennedy had been protestant he would have gotten 54, 55% of the vote against nixon. congressional democrats got 54.5% of the vote in 1960. jack kennedy got 50.1% of the vote. millions of white protestants who otherwise voted democrat did not vote for jack kennedy because he was a catholic. kennedy's presidency changed, i think, the dynamic of electoral policy come up national
jack kennedy, if jack kennedy had been protestant he would have gotten 54, 55% of the vote against nixon. congressional democrats got 54.5% of the vote in 1960. jack kennedy got 50.1% of the vote. millions of white protestants who otherwise voted democrat did not vote for jack kennedy because he was a catholic. kennedy's presidency changed, i think, the dynamic of electoral policy come up national
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are also trying to figure out nixon. for example, nixon and his free time late to bowl a and sometimes wear black suit to do it. it begins to explain things. who does this? so all books and i've been trilogies, so here's the end. so "affairs of state," i try to take a different good and we'll know about the washington, but with the digestion tenet are comfortable with brilliant. his courage and dashing crescent of the delaware christmas night, which saved the revolution. but who were george washington's girlfriends and he was a kid? you find it teenage washington on more than one occasion basically goes back home in tears because he was turned down and put pen to paper and rates roses are red, violets are blue type on this. this is a different look at washington. during my degrees in doctoral study economic professors didn't tell me about washington teenage girlfriend. so it's fun and provides us with an for months, a new way of understanding the president. we all know that our country's leaders have oftentimes in shape
are also trying to figure out nixon. for example, nixon and his free time late to bowl a and sometimes wear black suit to do it. it begins to explain things. who does this? so all books and i've been trilogies, so here's the end. so "affairs of state," i try to take a different good and we'll know about the washington, but with the digestion tenet are comfortable with brilliant. his courage and dashing crescent of the delaware christmas night, which saved the revolution. but who were...
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he communicated the message to nixon. and the message was subsidized childcare threatens the traditional model of the family. it threatens the traditional idea of this and the president should veto it. it is a critical turning point in these politics. another thing takes place in the late 1970s. that is when we see the birth of the family value movement. that movement came out of the opposition to the equal rights amendment the fight of conservative activists. especially in the mid-and late 1970s helped to galvanize the profamily movement. that movement became the family values movement and was critical to the reagan coalition together in 1980. it actually turns up some surprising discoveries as well. i have a whole chapter about the war. the way that battles over manhood and how americans argued over vietnam. if you think about it, it makes sense. on the one hand you have conservative americans or americans who saw themselves as patriots in the 1970s, and they believed that man's responsibility was to be drafted and to s
he communicated the message to nixon. and the message was subsidized childcare threatens the traditional model of the family. it threatens the traditional idea of this and the president should veto it. it is a critical turning point in these politics. another thing takes place in the late 1970s. that is when we see the birth of the family value movement. that movement came out of the opposition to the equal rights amendment the fight of conservative activists. especially in the mid-and late...
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it's appropriate to call the cinema and month in which richard nixon come with birthday falls. nixon and kissinger's of maine to china. their great achievement was not that the type to beijing. the united states had been talking for years and ambassadorial level talks that had gone nowhere. nixon and kissinger's achievement was that they accept good and persuaded their countrymen of the people's republic of china people's republic of china as legitimate political order rep resenting the entries that the united states for its own interest and to come to terms with. that's what we need to do with the islamic republic today. is obama going to be a divisiveness second term? thank you very much. hot mark >> we've got about 20 minutes left. i just want to ask one question. as i read through your book, one of the quotes you have, karen has never attacked another stater than threaten to attack one. it got a little bit of experience when i was at westwood on the 21st of january 1981 when we had dinner when they came out. i think there will be some argument along that regard. i spent two
it's appropriate to call the cinema and month in which richard nixon come with birthday falls. nixon and kissinger's of maine to china. their great achievement was not that the type to beijing. the united states had been talking for years and ambassadorial level talks that had gone nowhere. nixon and kissinger's achievement was that they accept good and persuaded their countrymen of the people's republic of china people's republic of china as legitimate political order rep resenting the entries...
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nixon was his ticket to becoming director, so he leaked in order to destroy gray and make nixon think well of felt and make felt the director. so the idea that he was a whistleblower or leaked to destroy richard nixon is completely untrue. >> so felt was a company guy? >> i'm sorry? >> felt was a company guy? >> the bureau was everything to him. it was his life, and being the directer of the bureau was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and he did everything in his power, engaging in dirty tricks, you know? fbi co-intel tactics to get to the directorship. and he flummoxed woodward. i don't think word woord really understood what was going on. >> do you feel he was misrepresented by woodward and bernstein? >> absolutely. i don't want fault woodward and bernstein's reporting in the fall of '72. what i fault is their book about the reporting. it's a fairy tale. >> we're following the death of -- [inaudible] bob woodward put a book out disclosing his rich with mr. felt. what are your thoughts? >> it's called "the secret man," and it furthered the fairy tale. it wasn't -- and i think woodwa
nixon was his ticket to becoming director, so he leaked in order to destroy gray and make nixon think well of felt and make felt the director. so the idea that he was a whistleblower or leaked to destroy richard nixon is completely untrue. >> so felt was a company guy? >> i'm sorry? >> felt was a company guy? >> the bureau was everything to him. it was his life, and being the directer of the bureau was a once in a lifetime opportunity, and he did everything in his power,...
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that is until president nixon made the idea of white house taping famous and infamous. [laughter] and other presidential recording systems were revealed to against the backdrop of watergate, the concept of secret taping can seem problematic, but it is beyond doubt this is a unique and invaluable historical resource. on these tapes history unfolds in real time in the most dramatic possible way. we had the chance conversations of the civil rights movement, and a life or death decisions be made during the cuban missile crisis. people often ask me why my father installed the system it as a lover of history i know he would've been drawn to this new technology as a way of keeping an accurate record of events for the memoir he planned to write after leaving office. and after the bay of pigs disaster, people say he wanted to be able to remember who said what in case they later changed their tune. [laughter] the wonderful thing about this book is that although much of this material has been available, it has not been easily accessible until now. the original recordings are of va
that is until president nixon made the idea of white house taping famous and infamous. [laughter] and other presidential recording systems were revealed to against the backdrop of watergate, the concept of secret taping can seem problematic, but it is beyond doubt this is a unique and invaluable historical resource. on these tapes history unfolds in real time in the most dramatic possible way. we had the chance conversations of the civil rights movement, and a life or death decisions be made...
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in fact, nixon did veto that child care act in 1971. that's a very interesting moment, one that doesn't usually register in our memories of the era, but it's a turning point in politics. another critical hinge of this transformation that "all in the family" tracks takes place really in the late 1970s when we see the birth of the sowled pro-family or family vams movement. that movement came immediately out of the opposition of the equal rights amendment and the fight of a conservative acts -- activist who people are familiar with, still activist today in a lot of ways, and her opposition to the equal rights amendment helped to gal galvanize a movemt that named itself the pro-family movement, and then that movement which ultimately was the so-called family values movement was critical to the reagan coalition that came together in 1980. the lens of the family turns up some startling and surprising discoveries as well. something like the vietnam war which we do not ordinarily associate with the politics of the family, there's a whole chapte
in fact, nixon did veto that child care act in 1971. that's a very interesting moment, one that doesn't usually register in our memories of the era, but it's a turning point in politics. another critical hinge of this transformation that "all in the family" tracks takes place really in the late 1970s when we see the birth of the sowled pro-family or family vams movement. that movement came immediately out of the opposition of the equal rights amendment and the fight of a conservative...
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it's appropriate to call this in the month in which richard nixon's 100th birthday falls. nixon and kissinger's opening to china, their great achievement was not that they talked to beijing. the united states had been talking to beijing for years. in ambassadorial-level talks that had gone nowhere. nixon and kissinger's achievement was that they accepted and persuaded their countrymen to accept the people's republic of china as legitimate political order representing legitimate national interests that the united states for its own interest needed to come to terms with. that's what we need to do. with the islamic republic today. is obama going to be up to this in his second term? thank you very much. [applause] >> we've got about 20 minutes left. i just wanted to ask one question. you know, as i read through your book, one of the quotes you have in there, iran has never attacked another state or even threatened to attack one. i've got a little bit of experience. i was at west point on the 21st of january in 1981 when we had dinner with the hostages as they came back, and i
it's appropriate to call this in the month in which richard nixon's 100th birthday falls. nixon and kissinger's opening to china, their great achievement was not that they talked to beijing. the united states had been talking to beijing for years. in ambassadorial-level talks that had gone nowhere. nixon and kissinger's achievement was that they accepted and persuaded their countrymen to accept the people's republic of china as legitimate political order representing legitimate national...
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nixon brings out researchers. he hires researchers all over the country to find every bit of dirt they can about the kennedy family, and they find plenty of dirt on joe kennedy, but no one accuses him of being a bootlegger. it's only in the 1970s when writers are trying to figure out the assassination, and they figure it can't be oswald, but the mafia. why would the mafia go after jfk and these explanations are put together, and all sorts of retired mafia, mafia person? some of it, you know, many miami, in israel, in europe, in the baa baa -- bahamas, and, oh, a friend, and writers would not let it go. i'm reading this stuff, trying to track down every rumor, every story, and, you know, the credible witnesses include al capone's piano tuner who gives an interview in which he says he was tuning the piano when al and kennedy met together. they were -- they include the ex-wife of a chicago mobster who says, yeah, yeah, my husband was a good friend of joe kennedy. they included people who came out of the wood work to
nixon brings out researchers. he hires researchers all over the country to find every bit of dirt they can about the kennedy family, and they find plenty of dirt on joe kennedy, but no one accuses him of being a bootlegger. it's only in the 1970s when writers are trying to figure out the assassination, and they figure it can't be oswald, but the mafia. why would the mafia go after jfk and these explanations are put together, and all sorts of retired mafia, mafia person? some of it, you know,...
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we're also trying to figure out dick nixon. for example, nixon in the springtime like to boulogne and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things. he does this? so i guess all books and of being trilogy's. here is the end. so the affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presence. for example, we all know about george washington. who were george washington's conference? that teenage washington on more than one occasion basically goes back home because she was turned down. puts pen to paper. roses are red, violets are blue. this is a different look to washington. during my degrees and doctoral studies by professors did not tell me about washington's teenage your friend. so it's kind of fun, and that think it provides us with an important lands to my new way of understanding. we all know that our country's leaders have oftentimes been shaped by the hand of a woman, often a mother and often a wife. i'm here to tell you, sometimes of a mistress as well. it's in the news today as we take
we're also trying to figure out dick nixon. for example, nixon in the springtime like to boulogne and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things. he does this? so i guess all books and of being trilogy's. here is the end. so the affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presence. for example, we all know about george washington. who were george washington's conference? that teenage washington on more than one occasion basically goes back home...
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so by this time, nixon attorney general mitchell have decided to take this thing over themselves. they can't run the risk of it got another important job for rehnquist at this point, with these two vacancies, wishes he is supposed to be running a committee to declassify documents and nixon and his diabolical authors, and rehnquist i'm sure doesn't know this, but with the white house tapes came out later, turns the reason he was rehnquist to do this is because he believes that he can get these documents declassified, he can use them to bang the image of the kennedy family, particularly bob kennedy and share k. and even ted kennedy, who he sees as a potential rival in the coming election. so the declassification of documents, nixon once rehnquist to handle so he can the documents out. when it turns that rehnquist isn't going fast enough, nixon and his other folks the later discredited watergate decide they're going to make up some documents from within any way. that's a whole other thing. so what happens is rehnquist is busy doing not and meanwhile, mitchell and nixon are trying to
so by this time, nixon attorney general mitchell have decided to take this thing over themselves. they can't run the risk of it got another important job for rehnquist at this point, with these two vacancies, wishes he is supposed to be running a committee to declassify documents and nixon and his diabolical authors, and rehnquist i'm sure doesn't know this, but with the white house tapes came out later, turns the reason he was rehnquist to do this is because he believes that he can get these...
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for example, we are still trying to figure out dick nixon. well, for example, i looked and said, nixon, in his free time, likes to boulogne and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things. he does this. so i guess all books in the being trilogies. so affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presidents. for example, we all know about george washington. we studied washington. what brilliance. we studied his courage, dashing crossing of the delaware on christmas night which saved the revolution, but who would toward -- who were george rushed to the store fronts when he was a kid? and you find that the teenage washington, more than one occasion, basically goes back home in tears because he was turned down and puts pen to paper and writes roses are red, violets are blue to the palms. he once wrote that cupid start has been shot through my heart when it yet another girl turned and down. this is a different look to washington. you know, during my degrees and doctoral studies, professors did not tell me a
for example, we are still trying to figure out dick nixon. well, for example, i looked and said, nixon, in his free time, likes to boulogne and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things. he does this. so i guess all books in the being trilogies. so affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presidents. for example, we all know about george washington. we studied washington. what brilliance. we studied his courage, dashing crossing of the delaware on...
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her perspective on richard nixon is a prospective i don't think i have never seen a man have. very much a woman's perspective because she was responding to the way he treated his wife. that is valuable about memoir, it contributes to the historical record and it is also why her story is important because women do have a slightly different take because they have a different experience. another question? if not i have more. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> was this at all unchallenged or natural gift with you? >> i like to tell stories in a way. i wanted with the iran book originally in 81, really wanted people to try to understand islam. i felt people didn't -- dick was extraordinary. he felt so strongly that people had to understand cultures and he got so upset when he would brief people and they didn't know what he was talking about. he drilled it into me and everything i say he would say qualify that, how do you know that, prove that to me. he would never allow you -- you always had to know. he talked to david ignatius before he went overseas and said i don't want you to just tell
her perspective on richard nixon is a prospective i don't think i have never seen a man have. very much a woman's perspective because she was responding to the way he treated his wife. that is valuable about memoir, it contributes to the historical record and it is also why her story is important because women do have a slightly different take because they have a different experience. another question? if not i have more. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> was this at all unchallenged or natural...
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i offer richard nixon. mr gregarious. as an example. i think our incumbent president, i have a slight possibility might be having more fun when he is watching george w. bush's sports package by himself in the treaty room than talking to members of congress. just a guess but he has got to move beyond that. if you look back to find ways to move forward, you have to bring people together. not that they're going to agree with you and not that all of a sudden ball all law is going to descend, but you tend to give someone the benefit of the doubt if you sit down, if you had a meal together, you get the little harder to be totally cross. is not impossible but it gets a little harder. almost every night when congress is in session thomas jefferson had lawmakers to dinner. he did not have republicans and federalists so we could all sit around like simpson-bowles and issue a report. that wasn't what he was doing. he didn't want them fighting with each other so what he did was he both attachments to himself because he believed he was the center of
i offer richard nixon. mr gregarious. as an example. i think our incumbent president, i have a slight possibility might be having more fun when he is watching george w. bush's sports package by himself in the treaty room than talking to members of congress. just a guess but he has got to move beyond that. if you look back to find ways to move forward, you have to bring people together. not that they're going to agree with you and not that all of a sudden ball all law is going to descend, but...
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remember barry gold water talking about richard nixon. i can't tell you what he said because it's familily wrair and family television. it was a time when there were great liars. i want to coat from william's book just brief i are two different part. it's a dual buy biography of hill rei are and tbil. here on page 153. bill clinton displayed his inability to come clean about personal issues that were core of his identity. sometimes he outright lied often he shaded the truth. often he seemed to construct events that work to his own benefit. i happened to at yale as a undergraduate when they were in law school. one wonders about the attraction and one reads the second bit can is about ken star interviewing hillary clinton. i can tell you a story about ken who i had dinner with at precisely this time. i won't. it would go on too long. he determined he did not have evidence to indict hillary clinton. the examples of ingenious cases. something perhaps illegal had taken place in arkansas with the first lady much more with her husband at the hea
remember barry gold water talking about richard nixon. i can't tell you what he said because it's familily wrair and family television. it was a time when there were great liars. i want to coat from william's book just brief i are two different part. it's a dual buy biography of hill rei are and tbil. here on page 153. bill clinton displayed his inability to come clean about personal issues that were core of his identity. sometimes he outright lied often he shaded the truth. often he seemed to...
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richmond nixon, california. gerald ford, was not elected. so he doesn't count. he was from michigan. jimmy carter from georgia. ronald reagan from california. the first george bush from texas via connecticut. bill clinton from arkansas and the second bush from texas. so 2008 in some ways watershed election. ends the 40-year period of sun belt dominance. and there were issues that were critical in the politics that developed, that came out of the sun belt. they tended to have a conservative cast to them. tended to be oriented around issues of strong national defense, of an opposition to unions and a defense of free enterprise politics. and also it's in the sun belt in the south and southwest, that we see the rise of what -- by the 1970s we'll be talk about as the religious right. the rise of evangelical involvement in the process. so national defense, he was a staunch anticommunist and played an important role in right wing anticommunist politics in the late 1960s, one of the things that led him to switch parties in 1964. he was a key figure in opposing labor uni
richmond nixon, california. gerald ford, was not elected. so he doesn't count. he was from michigan. jimmy carter from georgia. ronald reagan from california. the first george bush from texas via connecticut. bill clinton from arkansas and the second bush from texas. so 2008 in some ways watershed election. ends the 40-year period of sun belt dominance. and there were issues that were critical in the politics that developed, that came out of the sun belt. they tended to have a conservative cast...
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of the interesting things of her life is how she lived through this time and new people like richard nixon that her perspective is one that i don't think i have ever seen a man have it is a woman's perspective because she responded to the way he treated his wife. that is what memoir can contribute because women do have a slightly different experience. another question? >> speenine. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> guest: i like to tell stories in originally and 81 and i wanted people to do understand is long but i felt stayed it didn't then they felt so strongly people had to understand culture and he could brief the people on the hill. he really drill bit been to me. have you know, that? he would never allow you to assume something i know he talked to david ignatius first i want you to tell me the history of the country. because they sent the chapter on his long to three different professors and they all said the back with totally different statements [laughter] no wonder nobody could understand because they'll grow completely different things when i am very interested to hear people and i thin
of the interesting things of her life is how she lived through this time and new people like richard nixon that her perspective is one that i don't think i have ever seen a man have it is a woman's perspective because she responded to the way he treated his wife. that is what memoir can contribute because women do have a slightly different experience. another question? >> speenine. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> guest: i like to tell stories in originally and 81 and i wanted people to...
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richard nixon had some nice ones. expletive deleted is really his. when they go over the watergate trial, it became its own sort of curse word. another one was really interesting at the time. talking about winding down the war. george h. w. bush had his own words. the cheap shot was to say that these were all off the wall. the word resume came into the english language in 1531 and one other words of the words it was always attributed to him which was stranded jury, was actually a creation of saturday night live. [laughter] with the one you can really hang in business under estimate. there have been several pretty well-known people about language online. many top riders have said it is under estimate by mistake, what happens to all of us. so it may not be words like normalcy which will gradually become a more acceptable thing. the king of them all has to be -- even though jefferson wins on volume -- it has to be teddy roosevelt. he just goes up and down. pacifist is his. euphemisms, words that are demeaning like weasel. he had these analogies and loot
richard nixon had some nice ones. expletive deleted is really his. when they go over the watergate trial, it became its own sort of curse word. another one was really interesting at the time. talking about winding down the war. george h. w. bush had his own words. the cheap shot was to say that these were all off the wall. the word resume came into the english language in 1531 and one other words of the words it was always attributed to him which was stranded jury, was actually a creation of...
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[laughter] there was a nixon and o based budget and all the things you would hear about and he closed by quoting bieber this old city of politics to establish justice in the central world and a chinese philosopher philosopher, you give the man of fish the fet gym how he can feed himself forever. but he has told this to the washington press corps and told peter to call jack in three days to probably told him he would run for president. and the governor was concerned this might be a little pretentious for a first term georgia governor to be quoting these guys. at the end of the first speech jack said don't worry about it, nobody gives a anyway. [laughter] >> that is a good story. [laughter] [applause] >> the most generic thing about jack nelson's career he follows the pattern of the south except but trying to find out where corruption was and where people were being cheated and exposing its and correcting it. but he did not really get involved in the civil rights movement and tell he went to little rock and these little black children were being abused and jack saw the expression on the
[laughter] there was a nixon and o based budget and all the things you would hear about and he closed by quoting bieber this old city of politics to establish justice in the central world and a chinese philosopher philosopher, you give the man of fish the fet gym how he can feed himself forever. but he has told this to the washington press corps and told peter to call jack in three days to probably told him he would run for president. and the governor was concerned this might be a little...
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in fact, the first president who coined the phrase energy independence was richard nixon, a republican. so maybe it was logical to think well, if we make our own energy, then will be more independent and self-sufficient. but this was before we found that we had all this inexpensive natural gas, around $2.75 a sense per million btu. so now we're in the middle of a new american energy revolution. we found that we have all this. and as john maeda keynes once said, when the facts change, i change my mind. the facts have changed. we have an expensive energy right here without having to ask iran or saudi arabia to send it over to us. we have so much natural gas that i would talk about exporting liquid natural gas as daniel yergin describes an op-ed in today's wall street do. it's so cheap that chemical manufactures are being attracted back to america. it's so cheap that russia is worried that its hold on the eastern european economy is going to fail because we can now supply them with natural gas instead of russia being their sole supplier. in this environment, subsidizing wind and solar mak
in fact, the first president who coined the phrase energy independence was richard nixon, a republican. so maybe it was logical to think well, if we make our own energy, then will be more independent and self-sufficient. but this was before we found that we had all this inexpensive natural gas, around $2.75 a sense per million btu. so now we're in the middle of a new american energy revolution. we found that we have all this. and as john maeda keynes once said, when the facts change, i change...
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sorenson basically accuses "national review" of racism and extremism and associate that with nixon and george wallace and wants it all together, not a very intellectually impressive performance and rusher goes after him and keeps going after him and finally says, based on your performance tonight, you may think you're qualified to run for senator from new york the based on your hysterical performance tonight you would not be elected dogcatcher. sorensen says it seems to me your a being rather hysterical now and rusher says yes, but i am not running for the senate. he knew when to give just a little bit make the guy looked even worse. earlier on the barter show, south africa was already an issue for many liberals. rusher had not yet been there. somebody said -- is liberal opponents that have been to south africa? rusher says no, i haven't been to south africa but you must have been to south africa or you would not be making such heavy weather of it. what did you learn in south africa that you think is so important for us to know? he turns a weakness into a strength. don't give an inch.
sorenson basically accuses "national review" of racism and extremism and associate that with nixon and george wallace and wants it all together, not a very intellectually impressive performance and rusher goes after him and keeps going after him and finally says, based on your performance tonight, you may think you're qualified to run for senator from new york the based on your hysterical performance tonight you would not be elected dogcatcher. sorensen says it seems to me your a...
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a great deal more than the rest of station was at stake into communism and those associated with nixon a prominent member of the committee would be dealt a devastating blow. the guilty and communism occupy a part of the political landscape and furthermore chambers and hiss each represented one side. one represented freedom and western civilization and the other the etiology of totalitarianism. both the left and the right to understood america and the world was at a critical point* in history consider the major political events that transpired between august 1948 when chambers confronted hiss and may 1952 when chambers published "witness." 1948 the communists through a justice of akia coup d'etat the first seizure by force of a popular government and spending washington. at the shanghai shacked the following year the communist would assume command of the world's most populist nation. 1950 was the devil the site is surrounded to british authorities admitting he was a nuclear supply the same month out tear hiss was convicted of perjury the statute of limitations of espionage expired. and
a great deal more than the rest of station was at stake into communism and those associated with nixon a prominent member of the committee would be dealt a devastating blow. the guilty and communism occupy a part of the political landscape and furthermore chambers and hiss each represented one side. one represented freedom and western civilization and the other the etiology of totalitarianism. both the left and the right to understood america and the world was at a critical point* in history...
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if this was innocent, anti communism, and those closely associated with the like richard nixon. it was dealt a devastating blow. if alger hiss was guilty, anti communism would occupy a prominent part of the political landscape, and his spokesman would become national leaders. furthermore, chambers and alger hiss each represented one side in the epic struggle of the cold war. one man symbolized the philosophy of freedom and western civilization. the other the ideology of totalitarianism and marxism and leninism. both left and right understood that america and the world was at a critical point in history. considered a major political events had transpired between august of 1948 when chambers confronted alger hiss at a congressional hearing. in may of 1952 when chambers published his managerial and magisterial memoir "witness". in february of 1948, the communists seized control of czechoslovakia's. was the first soviet seizure by force of a free popular government and it stunned official washington. in china mao tse tung's people's liberation army and shanghai check's nationalist f
if this was innocent, anti communism, and those closely associated with the like richard nixon. it was dealt a devastating blow. if alger hiss was guilty, anti communism would occupy a prominent part of the political landscape, and his spokesman would become national leaders. furthermore, chambers and alger hiss each represented one side in the epic struggle of the cold war. one man symbolized the philosophy of freedom and western civilization. the other the ideology of totalitarianism and...
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them on, and sorensen basically accused them of racism and extremism and kind of the seats that with nixon and george wallace and just as it altogether. not a very intellectually impressive performance. and rusher just goes after him and keeps coming after him and finally says, you know, based on your performance tonight he may think that you are qualified to run for the senate of new york but based on your hysterical performance tonight, you wouldn't be elected a dogcatcher said he says it seems to me you are being rather hysterical now he says but i'm not ready for the senate. [laughter] she knew where to give just a little but make him look even worse. earlier on the show somebody was already an issue for many liberals. he hadn't yet been there but somebody said his liberal opponent said have you been to south africa? he says i haven't been, but you must have been to south africa or you wouldn't be making such heavy weather of it. what did you learn in south africa you think is so important for us to know. so she turns a weakness in to the strength. again, turn it around. it's not the p
them on, and sorensen basically accused them of racism and extremism and kind of the seats that with nixon and george wallace and just as it altogether. not a very intellectually impressive performance. and rusher just goes after him and keeps coming after him and finally says, you know, based on your performance tonight he may think that you are qualified to run for the senate of new york but based on your hysterical performance tonight, you wouldn't be elected a dogcatcher said he says it...
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going back to tenebrous about, coming up to richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan got the lead out of her ghastly or george h. debbie bush even after acid rain. republicans have a history of responsible stewardship of the environment. the hard right turn to the party from its own path and conservative panic you remake that that in the book. >> you talk about the 20 tens house of representatives and focus on republicans. you also look at democrats in regards to anti-legislation? >> a handful tended to be from fossil fuel states that are reliant on the shows of the past. upper trying to say is we need to continue to invest in the country in renewable fuels and efficient he is solar and wind and we make that case while we continue to makewar on this country, oil and gas needs to be moving towards cleaner, safer, more sustainable fuel. not overnight, but over time. >> as president obama does enough in terms of environmental regulation? >> president obama has worked hard to make progress, but there's a lot more to be done. president obama worked hard with
going back to tenebrous about, coming up to richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan got the lead out of her ghastly or george h. debbie bush even after acid rain. republicans have a history of responsible stewardship of the environment. the hard right turn to the party from its own path and conservative panic you remake that that in the book. >> you talk about the 20 tens house of representatives and focus on republicans. you also look at democrats in...
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we're all still trying to figure out dick nixon. he liked to bowl alone and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things, right? who does this? so, i guess all books end up being trilogies, so here's the en. affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presidents, and for example, we all know about george washington. but we study washington at yorktown. what brilliance. we study washington's courage and dashing crossing of the delware on christmas night, which saved the revolution. but who was george washington's girlfriends when he was a kid? and you find that washington boys basically goes back home in tear because he was turn down and turned to paper and wrote poems. he once wrote a dart has been thrown house hi heart when another girl turned him down. so during any studies me, professors didn't tell me about washington's teenage girlfriends. it provides us with a knew -- new way of understanding presidents. we all know our countries leaders have often times been shaped by the hands of a w
we're all still trying to figure out dick nixon. he liked to bowl alone and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things, right? who does this? so, i guess all books end up being trilogies, so here's the en. affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presidents, and for example, we all know about george washington. but we study washington at yorktown. what brilliance. we study washington's courage and dashing crossing of the delware on christmas night,...
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what if nixon had beaten kennedy and what it john henriette never been president? we started thinking of all the thousands of books that never would have been written. there may have been maybe different books written. i once interviewed caroline kennedy who has edited several books, her mother's writing mostly and some tapes from the white house. caroline kennedy is famous for staying on message and talking about certain things. an attempt to get her off that, i said if you ever thought of the idea that kennedy bookstore and she was not, if she was thinking about her she wouldn't say anything about it. i think it's possible to have an entire bookstore devoted to the kennedys with serious history. arnold schwarzenegger's book could be in there as well. he tells a story going back to governor arnold where he and maria are househunting and someone shows them a house i guess in los angeles, hollywood. the real estate agent said, you know, joseph kennedy lived here for a while and there was a tunnel underneath the house and it went next door to gloria swanson's house.
what if nixon had beaten kennedy and what it john henriette never been president? we started thinking of all the thousands of books that never would have been written. there may have been maybe different books written. i once interviewed caroline kennedy who has edited several books, her mother's writing mostly and some tapes from the white house. caroline kennedy is famous for staying on message and talking about certain things. an attempt to get her off that, i said if you ever thought of the...
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basically accuses "national review" of race simple -- racism and extremism and associates that with nixon and george wallace and lumps it all together. not an intellectually impressive performance. and rusher just goes after him and keeps going after him, and finally says, based on your performance tonight, you may think you're qualified to run for senate from new york, but based on your hysterical performance tonight, you would want be e -- you wouldn't be elected dog catcher. sorenson says, well, it seems you're being rather hysterical now. and rusher says, yeah, but i'm not running for the senate. he knew when to give just a little but make the guy look even worse. earlier on the farber show, somebody -- south africa was an issue for many liberals. rusher had not yet been there. but somebody said they -- his will be recall opponent said, have you been to south africa? and he says, no, i haven't been to south africa, but you must have been there or you wouldn't make such heavy weather of it. what did you learn in south africa that you think is so important for us to know. so he turns a
basically accuses "national review" of race simple -- racism and extremism and associates that with nixon and george wallace and lumps it all together. not an intellectually impressive performance. and rusher just goes after him and keeps going after him, and finally says, based on your performance tonight, you may think you're qualified to run for senate from new york, but based on your hysterical performance tonight, you would want be e -- you wouldn't be elected dog catcher....
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richard nixon has some nice ones. depending on your point of view. the silent majority is his and excellent ability is a coinage that either he or his speechwriters when they're going over the records of the watergate they use that term. if something is censored or bleeped its deleted which became its own curse word. another one which was really interesting is when he started talking about winding down the war. and winding down seemed to be sort of a winding up. it created some real response at that time. george herbert walker bush came up with new world order which was his. he got that from somewhere else that made it his own and popularized it. george bush came under a lot of criticism for a lot of his terms and i took them all at face value. i look them up. the cheap shot -- and he was entirely off-the-wall. but i did find -- which was one of his. it injured the language in 1583 and the word resonate came into the english language in 1531. one of the words that is always attributed to him is strategy. it was actually a creation of saturday night l
richard nixon has some nice ones. depending on your point of view. the silent majority is his and excellent ability is a coinage that either he or his speechwriters when they're going over the records of the watergate they use that term. if something is censored or bleeped its deleted which became its own curse word. another one which was really interesting is when he started talking about winding down the war. and winding down seemed to be sort of a winding up. it created some real response at...
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and nixon, corruption, zero base budget, all the things that you would hear about. and he closed with by quoting that the sole duty of politicians is to establish justice for the sinful world. in the chinese philosopher named one suit, give them an efficient the has one meal. if you teach and had a face chicken feed itself forever. well, the washington press corps , he apparently said peterson called jack and about three days to properly told and that he was going to run for president. jack, of course, serious enough never sorry about it. governor was concerned that maybe a little pretentious for a first term georgia governor to be quoting. at the end of his first speech to a national audience, jacks said, well, don't worry about it, nobody gives a damn any help. [laughter] that's a good story. [applause] >> i think the most generic thing about jack nelson's career is that to some degree he followed the pattern, except he was always a as has been pointed out, trying to find out where corruption was and where people were being cheated and exposing and correcting. but
and nixon, corruption, zero base budget, all the things that you would hear about. and he closed with by quoting that the sole duty of politicians is to establish justice for the sinful world. in the chinese philosopher named one suit, give them an efficient the has one meal. if you teach and had a face chicken feed itself forever. well, the washington press corps , he apparently said peterson called jack and about three days to properly told and that he was going to run for president. jack, of...
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at their heyday, he was our voice through the civil rightshe movement, the vietnam war, watergate, nixon's resignation, the birth of earth day, even he was the person who brought begin and sadat together which led to the camp david peace accord. so seminal broadcast journalism. the big three are edward r. murrow, walter caron cite and lowell thomas -- cronkite ande lowell thomas. >> how did he get to be that guy? >> you have to condense your stories, you're given about a thousand words, and you can'tf put a lot of adverbs and adjectives in it. so he learned how to write.y unknowingly, that wire service e was perfect for television when you only have 15-minute or then a half an hour news broadcasts. so cronkite didn't throw loose d language around. he was very precise. >> doug brinkley, was he political? >> cronkite was a new deal democrat. he was -- >> and was that known? >> no, it was not. he became l a fan of franklin roosevelt, cheered for him as a boy growing up in the 1930s. in the 1950s, some people felt s cronkite was a republican because his boss was.e the founder of cbs workedor d
at their heyday, he was our voice through the civil rightshe movement, the vietnam war, watergate, nixon's resignation, the birth of earth day, even he was the person who brought begin and sadat together which led to the camp david peace accord. so seminal broadcast journalism. the big three are edward r. murrow, walter caron cite and lowell thomas -- cronkite ande lowell thomas. >> how did he get to be that guy? >> you have to condense your stories, you're given about a thousand...
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um, richard nixon has some nice ones. he -- depending on your point of view -- but silent majority is his, deleted a coinage of his speech writers when they're going over the records of the watergate, their use of term instead of saying censored they used the term expletive deleted which became its own sort of curse word. another one which was very interesting at the time, created quite a stir was when he talked about, started talking about winding down the war and winding down seemed to be sort of -- you know, we're winding up, it was few to american ears and created -- it was new to american ears and created some real response at that time. george h -- yeah, george herbert walker books came up with some nice ones. new world order was his, thousand points of light. he got that from somewhere else, but he made that his own, he popularized that. george bush came under a lot of criticism for a lot of his terms, and i did -- i took them all at face value. i went and looked them up. in other words, i didn't -- cheap shot is t
um, richard nixon has some nice ones. he -- depending on your point of view -- but silent majority is his, deleted a coinage of his speech writers when they're going over the records of the watergate, their use of term instead of saying censored they used the term expletive deleted which became its own sort of curse word. another one which was very interesting at the time, created quite a stir was when he talked about, started talking about winding down the war and winding down seemed to be...
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the warbler that richard nixon used to trap hiss in his cross-examination. and these things, they live in kind of a mythological memory. it was in "the new york times" about three weeks ago or so, a little box, a warbler had appeared in new york city, in manhattan. the time to photograph it and made a reference to the work of, we're going to talk about today. and then i think a classic, enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders of alger hiss tried to make their slanders of the author of "witness" stick. today, i want to introduce the three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group we have here. all at once, and then leave it to them, they will take it over. each i hope making the remarks about 10 minutes, and then we will put it to the floor for further discussion. elliott abrams has had a remarkable string of positions, of enormous importance. i know him going back to the early reagan years. he began, my knowledge, with human rights. that was really something intellectually to come in behind the jimmy cart
the warbler that richard nixon used to trap hiss in his cross-examination. and these things, they live in kind of a mythological memory. it was in "the new york times" about three weeks ago or so, a little box, a warbler had appeared in new york city, in manhattan. the time to photograph it and made a reference to the work of, we're going to talk about today. and then i think a classic, enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders of alger hiss...
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the war blur that richard nixon used to trap him in the cross-examination, and these things, they live in a mythological memory. it was in the "new york times" three weeks ago or so in a box, you know, a-11, a war blur appeared in new york city in manhattan, and times photographed it, making the reference to this work we're going to talk about today, and then, i think, a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders tried to make slanders of the authors of witness stick. today, i want to introduce the three panelists. this is an amazingly powerful group we have here. all at once. leave it to them. they will take it over. each, i hope, making remarks ten minute, and we'll open it up for further discussion. elliot a -- abrams had a remarkable strings of enormous importance. i remember him going back to the early reagan years. he began my knowledge with human rights, and that was really something, the jimmy carter invention of human rights, and in charge of latin american affairs, positions in the white house, and in every case, he
the war blur that richard nixon used to trap him in the cross-examination, and these things, they live in a mythological memory. it was in the "new york times" three weeks ago or so in a box, you know, a-11, a war blur appeared in new york city in manhattan, and times photographed it, making the reference to this work we're going to talk about today, and then, i think, a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders tried to...
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the teamsters came out for nix nixon. so kennedy spent all the money he did, could, pulled all the strings, but jack kennedy certainly didn't need him in chicago and kennedy would have won the electoral college even without the illinois votes. >> you make joseph kennedy sound only as positive. i have just heard stories over the years of less than savory things, and maybe a bit of a pirate in a lot of his teeth. do you have any examples of that? >> yeah, i have. hundreds and hundreds of pages. you know, it's always hard to know what you write, you write a book, you stick it out there, and then you discover what it's about.
the teamsters came out for nix nixon. so kennedy spent all the money he did, could, pulled all the strings, but jack kennedy certainly didn't need him in chicago and kennedy would have won the electoral college even without the illinois votes. >> you make joseph kennedy sound only as positive. i have just heard stories over the years of less than savory things, and maybe a bit of a pirate in a lot of his teeth. do you have any examples of that? >> yeah, i have. hundreds and hundreds...
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dipper phonic terry war blurb that richard nixon used to trap his cross-examination. these things lived in the mythological memory in our times about three weeks ago, in a little box it had appeared in new york city and manhattan. the time said photographed at a major reference to the work we are going to talk about today. and i think a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders, alger hiss, tried to slander the author of "witness." today i want to introduce this three panelists, and this is an amazingly powerful group. leave it to them, they will take it over each making their remarks about 10 minutes and then we will open it for further discussion. elliott abrams has had a remarkable string of positions of enormous importance. i have known him going back to the early reagan years. it began my knowledge with human rights. that was really something intellectually. part of the convention of human rights and the state department. in charge of latin american affairs and in positions in the white house. in every
dipper phonic terry war blurb that richard nixon used to trap his cross-examination. these things lived in the mythological memory in our times about three weeks ago, in a little box it had appeared in new york city and manhattan. the time said photographed at a major reference to the work we are going to talk about today. and i think a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders, alger hiss, tried to slander the author of...
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you know, the "wall street journal" called his political comeback the envy of richard nixon, and in 1990 he was elected in a 3-way race by about a few hundred votes, and he came back, and this was the 90's when providence was undergoing this remarkable renaissance. rivers were being moved. concrete that smother them was being ripped. as you see now, the water fire display of the rivers and the beauty of the architecture. but he was a champion of that. as providence became my city, he became a hot mayor and things are going very well for him. but then just as he was celebrating becoming the longest serving mayor in providence history, the corruption rear its head again and the fbi found this local businessman who agreed to go undercover into city hall. he wore a wire, and a hidden camera in the handle of his briefcase, and he taped various aides to body, including his top aide, taking bribes and city hall for city contracts and other favors. this became known as the federal fbi case called operation plunder dome. it was led by an fbi agent named dennis aitken who was originally from missi
you know, the "wall street journal" called his political comeback the envy of richard nixon, and in 1990 he was elected in a 3-way race by about a few hundred votes, and he came back, and this was the 90's when providence was undergoing this remarkable renaissance. rivers were being moved. concrete that smother them was being ripped. as you see now, the water fire display of the rivers and the beauty of the architecture. but he was a champion of that. as providence became my city, he...
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"the wall street journal" called his political comeback the envy of richard nixon and in 1990 he was elected in a three-way race by a few hundred votes. he came back and this was the '90s when providence was undergoing this remarkable renaissance. the concrete that smother them with being ripped up. as you see now the water fire display on the rivers and the beauty of the architecture. buddy was a champion of that and is providence became a hot city he became a really hot mayor and things were going very well for him. but then just as he was celebrating becoming the longest-serving mayor in providence history, the corruption reared its head again and the fbi found this local businessman who agreed to go undercover to city city hall and he wore a wired camera in the handle of his briefcase. heat tape to various aides and buddy including his top aide taking bribes for city contracts and other favors. this became known as the federal fbi case called operation plunder dome. it was run by an sp agent named dennis akin who is originally from mississippi. he led this investigation that ulti
"the wall street journal" called his political comeback the envy of richard nixon and in 1990 he was elected in a three-way race by a few hundred votes. he came back and this was the '90s when providence was undergoing this remarkable renaissance. the concrete that smother them with being ripped up. as you see now the water fire display on the rivers and the beauty of the architecture. buddy was a champion of that and is providence became a hot city he became a really hot mayor and...